Out This Week: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Wallace and Gromit, Bagpuss and more

Welcome to another eidtion of our new release round-up. New on shiny 4K this week is Disney's debut Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. New on Blu Ray is Ub Iwerks' Flip The Frog: The Complete Series and Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection, containing all four classic shorts. New in anime this week is The Eminence in Shadow and Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club: Season 2.

New in the UK on Blu-Ray is beloved stop-motion series Bagpuss, Pixar's latest Elemental and anime series Princess Jellyfish and Flying Witch. New on 4K Ultra high definition is The Nightmare Before Christmas and Makoto Shinkai's Your Name

UK Releases For October 9, 2023

Bagpuss : The Complete Series (Fabulous Films, U) Bagpuss was first seen on British television on 12th February 1974. The charming children's stop motion animation was made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, starring the "saggy old cloth cat" Bagpuss. He lived in a strange shop - owned by a little girl called Emily - which didn't actually sell anything, but was a home for lost property. Only 13 episodes were ever made, but the programme has remained popular down the generations and was voted the all-time favourite children's programme in 1999. The show has now delighted viewers of children’s television for 50 years.

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Elemental (Disney, PG) In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: How much they have in common.

FORMATS: Blu-Ray, DVD, Digital

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Flying Witch: Complete Series (MVM Entertainment, U) "Aomori, Japan. In a land blessed by nature's bountiful beauty, bizarre things begin to take place. Makoto Kowata, 15 years old, is a professional witch. She left Yokohama with Chito, her black cat, to live in the house of her relatives in Aomori. This is where she begins to train as a witch. Even though Makoto's powers are still limited to just flying through the sky, she and her second cousins Kei and Chinatsu surely make the most out of each and every day."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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The Nightmare Before Christmas (Disney, PG) "When the king of Halloween Town, Jack Skellington, gets bored of his job preparing for Halloween every year, he discovers Christmas Town and is inspired to take control of Christmas season for a change. Unfortunately his ghoulish subjects have difficulty getting the festive holiday quite right. Meanwhile, Sally, a pretty maid who takes care of her creator, Dr. Finklestein, is trying to escape from her confines. She worries for Jack and foresees his plans will end in ruin."

FORMATS: 4k+Blu-Ray

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Princess Jellyfish (Anime Ltd., 12) " Amamizukan is an apartment complex where no boys are allowed. Kurashita Tsukimi, a girl who adores jellyfish, lives there happily with her friends who all have nerdy obsessions of their own. Their peaceful lives gradually start to change when a beautiful woman helps Tsukimi out of a pinch. She stays overnight at the apartments -- but it turns out "she" is really a "he.""

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Your Name (Anime Ltd, 12) " Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives until they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This occurrence happens randomly, and they must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection by leaving notes for one another until they wish to finally meet. But something stronger than distance may keep them apart."

FORMATS: 4K+ Blu-Ray

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US Releases For October 10, 2023

Flip The Frog: The Complete Series (Thunderbean Animation, NR) "Featuring the title character's often notably pre-code misadventures, Flip the Frog was Ub Iwerks' first animated series after he and Walt Disney had a falling out in 1930."

FORMATS : Blu-Ray

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The Eminence in Shadow: Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, TV-MA) " Cid doesn't want to be a flashy hero or a dastardly villain. He wants to operate in the shadows and pull the strings of society through wit and cleverness. So, when he's isekai'd to another world armed with magic powers (and an overactive imagination), he forms Shadow Garden, an underground organization that fights an evil cult he totally made up. But while Cid happily roleplays his favorite antihero tropes, little does he know Shadow Garden's recruits treat his every lie as gospel, and worse yet? That "fake" cult is actually real, and they're not happy his power fantasy just impeded their plan to gain ultimate power!"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club: Season 2 (Crunchyroll LLC, TV-14) "After the festival, the Idol Club has never been more popular! Everyone is closer to their dreams, including manager Yu Takasaki. But with their newfound popularity comes a new rival vying for the spotlight. The stage is set - let’s start the show!"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Ultimate Collection (Sentai Filmworks, TV-14)" Yuta Togashi spent years living in a complete fantasy world, a real condition called chunibyo that affects thousands of Japanese students. However, with a lot of work and effort, he's managed to regain his perspective to the point where he's ready to go to high school as a normal kid. Unfortunately, the girl who lives above Yuta is deep into her own case of chuni, and in HER fantasy world, Yuta is her soul mate! How do you handle a relationship with a girl whose feelings may be based entirely on delusions? And what happens when Yuta's FORMER "one true soul mate" returns with her own skewed version of reality? Modern relationships can often get a little weird, but Yuta's life is about to get seriously wild and crazy in the ultimate collection of LOVE, CHUNIBYO AND OTHER DELUSIONS!"

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney, G) "The fairy tale of Snow White, a beautiful young maiden cast into a deep sleep by her evil step-mother, but rescued from the dark magic spell through the love of handsome Prince Charming. The first animated full color sound motion picture."

FORMATS 4K+Blu-Ray+Digital

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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection (Shout Factory, NR)"The comedic adventures of the eccentric, absent-minded inventor Wallace and his loyal, anthropomorphic dog Gromit."

FORMATS: Blu-Ray

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